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COVER STORY
The GSH 7 VC Professional offers:
• Powerful SDS-max hammer with 1 500 watts and 13 joules of
impact energy
• Very good ratio of power to weight for low user fatigue
• Low vibration due to optimised hammer mechanism and
decoupled handles
The Power Tools Division of the Bosch Group is the world market
leader for power tools and power tool accessories. In 2012, its
workforce generated sales of €4-billion, 90% of which outside
of Germany.
With brands such as Bosch, Skil and Dremel, the division
stands for customer focus and great engineering progress. The
core success factors are innovative strength and pace of innova-
tion. Each year, Bosch Power Tools launches more than 100 new
products onto the market. The division generated about 40% of
its sales in 2012 with products that have been on the market for
less than two years.
The business segments electric power tools, accessories,
measuring tools and garden tools of Bosch Power Tools outper-
formed the market.
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology
and services. In fiscal 2012, its roughly 306 000 associates
generated sales of €52,5-billion. Since the beginning of 2013, its
operations have been divided into four business sectors: Auto-
motive Technology, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods,
and Energy and Building Technology.
The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its
roughly 360 subsidiaries and regional companies in some 50
countries. If its sales and service partners are included, then
Bosch is represented in roughly 150 countries. This worldwide
development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foun-
dation for further growth. Bosch spent some €4,8-billion for
research and development in 2012, and applied for nearly 4 800
patents worldwide.
The Bosch Group’s products and services are designed to
fascinate, and to improve the quality of life by providing solu-
tions which are both innovative and beneficial. In this way, the
company offers technology worldwide that is ‘Invented for life’.
he GSH 7 VC Professional from
Bosch is exceptionally powerful
with low weight and good
vibration damping. This SDS-
max demolition hammer is driven
by a 1 500 watt motor, works with
an impact energy of 13 joules and
weighs only 8,4 kilogrammes.
Due to its optimised ratio of power to weight,
the GSH 7 VC Professional relieves the strain
on professional tradespeople, especially when
performing tiring work such as horizontal or over-
head chiselling.
These demanding tasks, such as removing tiles,
can therefore be done both quickly and efficiently.
The vibration damping system also contributes to
comfortable use of the tool: the demolition hammer
achieves low vibration of only 9,5 m/s² thanks to its
optimised hammer mechanism and decoupled main
and side handles.
As a result, the permitted operating time
is more than two hours per day and user.
In combination with the high material removal
rate of 240 kilogrammes of concrete per hour,
which has been confirmed in independent tests
by the renowned testing institute SLG Prüf-und
ZertifizierungsGmbH, and the Constant Electronic
which enables the GSH 7 VC Professional to deliver
consistent performance even under load, this
ensures fast work progress.
Long lifetime due
to robust design
The GSH 7 VC Professional demolition hammer has
a long lifetime thanks to its robust metal compo-
nents and the hammer mechanism which has been
specially designed and tested for chiselling. An inte-
grated service display also shows in advance when
the carbon brushes have to be changed.
The tool’s features are completed by a speed
controller to enable the impact force to be adjusted
to suit the application, the Vario-Lock system which
enables the chisel to be fixed in 16 different positions
so that it can be adapted to any work situation, and a
switch lock for comfortable, continuous use.
Bosch also offers matching accessories: ‘RTec
Sharp’ SDS-max flat chisels and ‘RTec Speed’
pointed chisels are especially suitable for chisel-
ling with the GSH 7 VC Professional. They have a
self-sharpening cutting edge, which enables them to
achieve a constantly high material removal rate over
their entire lifetime.
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